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Sunday, March 11, 2012
Traffic Master Allure
The makeovers in the bedrooms and bathroom are just about done. I'm waiting for the Traffic Master Allure to be installed. The boxes have been sitting in the living room. My husband has been working a long 2 week shut down at the paper mill he is working at, so he doesn't have the time to pull up the wood trim and toilet. So I have to wait patiently until he has the time then the installers will come and do their thing and hubby will reinstall the toilet and wood trim! It's all planned for the 19th! I'm so excited to try vinyl wood flooring. I wanted Armstrong Alterna tile in there as I have in the kitchen but in a different color. But that isn't going to happen. The bathroom is black and white and the only tile Alterna has are 12 inch tiles... Well I brought the sample home and it just won't work in there. The room is way to narrow to even lay 2 tiles next to each other without trimming. I just don't think it would look good. So after thinking a week, I tried hard to give up on the Alterna tile and have an open mind. Ceramic and glass tile is out. I didn't want a cold floor. That room only has one heat register and the rooms on either side of the bathroom don't have heat. I hung my head and looked at regular vinyl.. What else was there. I don't a wood floor in there, we have enough wood trim and I would really start to lose the black and white colors in there. So I was wondering around and looked up and what did I see with the vinyl wood floor??? Black.... oh I couldn't find a customer assistant fast enough. We talked and it is easy to clean, vinyl so it won't be cold and it will be tough enough for Henry's nails. That was it. It took 3 weeks for it come in and I couldn't make the install appointment until the product was in the house. Which leads me to my long wait for hubby's shut down to be over. I know I will like it and I have confidence it will be durable. A big up side it's only a third the price of the Alterna.. even though Alterna is worth every penny!
The orange stripe is part of the box
Yup that is the floor now, doesn't it scream 90's.. house was built 1993. I was right on the mark with style back then!
Saturday, March 10, 2012
First Robin this Spring
Thursday, March 8, 2012
I want to talk about Pink Slime
Wow I just can't wrap my head around what the beef industry is doing. Ok in the last 2 -3 years ground beef prices have doubled if not tripled. So why are they doing this.. adding pink slime to ground beef?
First off I don't buy ground beef in the grocery store. we buy half cows from my husbands family and it is processed at a local butcher shop (Haen Meats). They are a top notch business and I don't believe they would do something like this. But I have eaten hamburgers and had meals made with ground beef (Sloppy Joes) at family parties and picnics etc... So I know that I probably have consumed some of this yuck!! However I have not had a hamburger in a year.. But I've had turkey burgers at fast food places.. do they have the pink slime additive?
What is pink slime? I want to cry as I explain it as I know it. These beef processing places are taking parts of the cow that is deemed not suitable for human consumption. These parts were used for dog food in the past. Things parts are now treated with ammonia which kills e coli and other germs that are deadly to humans. Then this pink slime is added to ground beef. I have read that any time the ground beef is labeled hamburger it will have the pink slime. However there is no clear way to tell if it's in the ground beef you buy at the grocery store. McDonalds, Taco Bell and Burger King have stopped using it. They are saying the only sure fire way to know if it's in there is to watch your butcher grind your meat. Man! I'm sitting here thinking about this and how did they ever come up with this? Then we all sit here and think how can cancer be so out of control.. Well this is one of those things when we say cancer is caused by environment. We are eating meat that used to be used only for dog food and consuming heated ammonia. We all know where e coli lives naturally in cows?
The saddest thing about this, now schools are beginning to use it in school lunches. I know corn prices have skyrocketed since E-85 production began. Which caused the meat prices to go high of course the economy is bad which doesn't help. However the prices have gone up a lot why isn't that enough?
WHY??? Is it greed?
What else are food producers adding to our food?
First off I don't buy ground beef in the grocery store. we buy half cows from my husbands family and it is processed at a local butcher shop (Haen Meats). They are a top notch business and I don't believe they would do something like this. But I have eaten hamburgers and had meals made with ground beef (Sloppy Joes) at family parties and picnics etc... So I know that I probably have consumed some of this yuck!! However I have not had a hamburger in a year.. But I've had turkey burgers at fast food places.. do they have the pink slime additive?
What is pink slime? I want to cry as I explain it as I know it. These beef processing places are taking parts of the cow that is deemed not suitable for human consumption. These parts were used for dog food in the past. Things parts are now treated with ammonia which kills e coli and other germs that are deadly to humans. Then this pink slime is added to ground beef. I have read that any time the ground beef is labeled hamburger it will have the pink slime. However there is no clear way to tell if it's in the ground beef you buy at the grocery store. McDonalds, Taco Bell and Burger King have stopped using it. They are saying the only sure fire way to know if it's in there is to watch your butcher grind your meat. Man! I'm sitting here thinking about this and how did they ever come up with this? Then we all sit here and think how can cancer be so out of control.. Well this is one of those things when we say cancer is caused by environment. We are eating meat that used to be used only for dog food and consuming heated ammonia. We all know where e coli lives naturally in cows?
The saddest thing about this, now schools are beginning to use it in school lunches. I know corn prices have skyrocketed since E-85 production began. Which caused the meat prices to go high of course the economy is bad which doesn't help. However the prices have gone up a lot why isn't that enough?
WHY??? Is it greed?
What else are food producers adding to our food?
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Motorola Electrify Cell Phone
Last Saturday I got a new phone. Our cellphone service was Verizon's Alltel. A few years ago Verizon bought Alltel. I cried when that happened. My parents had Verizon and their coverage was horrible and the service was expensive. But since I had a contract with Alltel, Verizon had to keep my costs the same which was much cheaper. With that however we had to buy used Alltel phones when we needed new phones. When I bought my Blackberry Storm however I did upgrade to Verizon service but I did not have to sign a contract and the price stayed the same except for the price of the data service $30. Well around Christmas time I started to not get all my phone calls. I would be sitting next to the phone and it wouldn't ring. I was told by the callers that it wouldn't ring it would go straight to voice mail. That was the only way I would know I got a call was to look at the phone and see the voice mail message. I went to the store and they said kept saying to update the towers. So I would update the phone and it didn't help. Then about a month ago my kids started to complain about the same thing. Well then 2 weeks ago I was waiting for my daughter to call so I could pick her up from work. I called her twice and she called me once and none of those calls went through. She ended up calling her brother to pick her up while I was still waiting. This set me off. So I called Verizon. I told my story twice that first day and then for the next 3 days to 3 more people and the problem didn't get solved. I was mad just because I had to retell the story and get mad all over again and it did nothing. So Saturday I took the kids and we went to US Cellular. I got the Motorola Electrify.....
I love it. It's fun and it does everything. I have been taking time to look at the tutorials and truly learning everything about this phone. It's so much easier then the Blackberry Storm plus there are Android Apps for everything! Blackberry has nothing for apps free or paid!!! It's so much faster too. I hated waiting for the internet on The Storm. On The Electrify it's quick. Not lightning, but mighty fast. It's only 3G but it's good enough for me... compared to what I had... man I'm getting whiplash! Plus I can use the house Wifi and its setup automatically so every time I walk in the house it goes to our house WiFi which saves the 5g of internet I get through the phone. The kids also have internet on their phones. My son though has the Motorola Quantico which is a water proof phone not a smartphone. He is really rough on phones so a Smartphone won't last for him. My daughter got the Huawei smartphone. She really likes it.. of course she would she and her brother upgraded from old Motorola Razrs.
I'm very satisfied with my US Cellular plan. It's 3 phones with unlimited text, 1500 minutes and 5g of data. Nights start at 7:00pm. All in coming calls are free. The plan has battery exchange up to 4 times a month. Plus there is a reward program. It's all for about the same as what I was paying before.
I can't say a bad thing about the Motorola Electrify.. I will try to do another review in a few months.. will I feel the same?
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